Dissociation in hypnosis and frontal executive function.
In a career of many searching conceptual insights, Kenneth Bowers drew an important distinction between 2 different dissociative theories of hypnosis: dissociated experience and dissociated control. We contrast these 2 views and discuss how a dissociated control theory can be integrated with current conceptions of frontal executive function. Then we use this frontal elaboration of the dissociated control theory to sketch out a provisional understanding of memory function associated with hypnosis and hypnotic suggestibility, with particular emphasis on unsuggested effects.
Woody
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University of Waterloo, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Psychology, Ontario, Canada. ewoody@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Farvolden
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D004213:Dissociative Disorders; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D014836:Volition / Q000502:physiology*